Luka Dončić on Game 3 officiating after fouling out: ‘Come on man, be better than that’ | UNDISPUTED

Luka Dončić on Game 3 officiating after fouling out: ‘Come on man, be better than that’ | UNDISPUTED

I mean I was shocked skip he went into the fourth quarter with only two fouls like a player his caliber I mean you don’t play defense no way but the IQ you have like should never foul out like to pick up four in one quarter that just shows me that there was a frustration built up somehow from just the game and lack of focus because I I just something you never hear of from a caliber of player like Luca donin so uh I mean at that point when he had his fifth foul like you’re trying to take a charge and we all know how charges go they 5050 calls it’s all on the ref’s Judgment but this one here was clearly a foul he never got his body in front of him and then you you fall a whole different direction and jaylen’s going one way and it’s kind of like you got the knee out and shoulder and so you shouldn’t put yourself in those position when you know your team needs you and you got five fouls already but clearly the game plan and it finally worked you know not that it didn’t work before it was like the game plan let’s attack Luca and on many occasions like that when you throw ahead and you see Luca in front of you Jaylen Brown knew from that just go at it just make him slide his feet you can go by him and they put him in a bad spot and so the fourth quarter that’s all they did and it was just it’s just lack of focus I mean because I mean I was shocked two fouls fourth quarter biggest quarter of your career yep and you get four fouls with four minutes to go and foul out very dis explain something to me Paul help educate me because when when I hear and a lot of people in basketball in particular say high IQ high IQ what does that mean that means if you know you got five fouls Kean and and you got jayen brown coming at you full steam you let him go and let the next man pick him up so in the reason I ask you that is because High IQs mean smart to me yeah that’s what it means right skip I mean it doesn’t mean dumb things that you do but he let the we talk about we we talk about four and five the files that he got four five and six five and six but we don’t talk about three and four that’s dumb that ain’t high IQ because the frustration sets in all of a sudden you decide oh I’mma get this third foul because I’m frustrated even though I don’t get the rebound Derek white now has the ball so I’m just going to swiping him because I’m frustrated that’s not smart that’s not high IQ people with high IQs I don’t see do that or I don’t normally play defense and straight up with somebody they gonna blow past me so now all of a sudden I’m gonna get a fou on PR picture because I’m going to wrap around so I’m going get four now you start talking about if you don’t get three and four you won’t be no five and six y it started at three and four doing dumb stuff at three and four if you got this high IQ and you so smart you should know I can’t do that right I can’t I cannot do that I’m the leader of the team I’m the I’m the one that’s supposed to save the franchise I’m the one that’s supposed to bring the second Championship to the franchise and if I’m not on the floor then we GNA be in the minus category to me that’s high IQ then when you talk about basketball we all know that he does not play defense that you’re just not a defensive guy and that’s okay you got your role Your Role is the playoff score points pass the ball rebound when you can but when you put yourself in a position like Paul’s talking about with Jaylen Brown coming up the floor after you just got your fifth foul you all of a sudden go look for a charge to play hero hero ball now now you gonna play Hero ball that’s not a high IQ to me let that man go on by you ain’t gonna stop him any damn way cuz you’re not fast enough even if even if you decided to engage and try to impede his progress not fast enough your feet aren’t fast enough quick enough to move the damn move out the damn way so why would you even put yourself in that position to do such a thing maybe he’s thinking hey I did this in game one and I got the file at the at the half court so maybe I could do it again and it didn’t work out for him now all of a sudden you forcing you going to force your Authority on the head coach and say hey man challenge that that’s too late now you challeng it but they ain’t got another challenge when they needed it to have it on the on the uh on the Drew holiday file mhm they can’t even challenge that cuz they just use it up on yours correct so it all goes back to file number three before we even get to six skip okay I agree to frame this before I launch on it the book on Luca since day one that he stepped on an NBA floor was he plays no defense and I hark back to a game you might or might not remember there was a classic game back in 2019 early in the season November at Dallas your Los Angeles Lakers featuring LeBron James went to the wire Danny Green made a corner three on a kick out from LeBron to tie the game and then they won it but Danny Green made the shot of shots and after the game Kyle kosma one of your Lakers at that point was quoted as saying we just passed the ball to whoever Luca was guarding and that was the whole game plan just pass it whoever LC Gard just let him shoot where’s the duck okay there you go where’s the duck okay so this has been going on for a long long time but somehow Luca despite that reputation in that book on him he just keeps making First Team all NBA first team all NBA what is it five years in a row okay I’m just telling you this is what’s this is what’s been happening last night I saw it different than you guys did I saw Luca actually trying his ass off on defense and not knowing how like all he know knows to do if he’s going to try on defense because this is the game of your life this this is Do or Die the only way he knows to play defense is to clutch and grab that’s all because it’s all he’s got he’s just going to reach and grab and reach and and he’s going to be a step half step late and he’s going to try to do this he’s going to at least he was trying and failing miserably because he was actually less of a liability when he just tried to hide and didn’t really give any effort and rested on defense that’s what he usually does he just rest but the problem with that though skip for my eyes is it’s harder to rest on defense because they got so many multiple guys that can knock these guys you are correct this ain’t this ain’t Minnesota when you and Rudy go talk about what y’all gonna eat for dinner yeah no I I understand but they have somehow gotten away with it because he’s been a lot better on offense and this is tribute to your defense he hasn’t been up against this defense even though Minnesota’s was the number one defense he had a much easier time against it than he’s having against your two perimeter Defenders and you can make a case those two are the best defensive guards combo I I don’t know that we’ve ever seen but the problem with that is you start if you bring Michael Jordan in as a two guard and you throw in Scotty Pippen as some sort of perimeter player and Ron Harper is in that mix too now now it’s like stop man because that’s a whole different ball game that you’re playing no doubt but these are two pure guards they’re they’re just they’re just like y’all have y’all have Rondo and who Ray back court we talking about just the back court right now yeah but but do you consider yourself a backourt player I mean you kind of saw I went in between two and three but when Ray got there I went to the forward okay all right but but you were a great defender but do you qualify as a backourt Defender it’s no probably would okay these are two all NBA I never made an all NBA team but like you got an argument there with if you consider Scotty a point guard cuz I I feel like he was a point guard I understand and if you remember the 98 with with Ron listen Ron Harper he was long and quick he was arest like to me okay so this I I saw teams like the Charlotte team in one of the earlier rounds in ’98 they couldn’t get the ball past half court I’m serious and when they would their their offense was initiated from almost to half court it’s hard to you and one thing that he if if if he’s going to be a champion and you know this Paul and you know it too skip is covering Sports if you’re going to be a champion you cannot allow things to frustrate you because things starts to frustrate you you learn in in in and you stop making excuses you go out there and you play and whatever happens happens but if he doesn’t stop that he’ll never win a championship because focus is on the in the wrong place you you don’t think he just rubs the ref’s raw after a while well yeah after a while yeah because they don’t want to hear it so it’s background music were they were they calling it a little close on him on defense no I mean look at the fouls we we can examine any let’s do that cuz we got them let’s floor except it was flipped it was going the other way not quick enough to get set set get set you know like or out of the way whichever way you want to do it but he wanted to take the charge and he was a half steps late and so he’s got to do it with his knee and you can’t move your knee out because if I if they’re not going to give it to you if I get up on if I get up on Paul and I and I plant my foot up on Paul I’m quick enough to Olay and get go man you can go and buy me he’s not he made a mistake his his his as we like to call it a football he had gravy boots very heavy could not move that is true Paul Pierce how many times do you think Jason kid has pulled him aside or sat him down and said something about you just got to calm it down a little bit with the referees especially at home W you you’re just antagonizing they all have multiple times within the organization not just not just Jay kid Nico and everybody family and friends maybe his girlfriend maybe like everybody everybody who’s this CU this has been a reputation for too long and at some point they said this year he’s been better actually but then Welly that wasn’t better I told you you got and you just look at all his home games you start reverting back to old ways now when the playoffs come and as the deeper you get in the playoffs because there was talk about hey he’s gotten better this year but he hasn’t been once he got into the pressure situation you scream at the refs every 3 minutes instead of every minute oh I mean it’s just that now you’re in a pressurized situation of the playoffs the playoffs can cause you to revert back to Old Habits absolutely you know what I’m saying because now the stakes High higher and then you just you forget but then you but but see that goes back to that goes back to my IQ that goes back you ain’t forgetting Michael Jordan ain’t forgetting Kobe Bryan ain’t forgetting people that we people that we LBJ he ain’t Paul Pierce they not forgetting if you got this High basketball IQ football IQ there’s nothing that’s going to get in the way that going to cost your team yeah if you got a high IQ yeah how many times have we seen guys do something silly that cost the team because they just they get frustrated okay I mean it’s it’s not like he’s getting a lot of technicals he doesn’t get a lot of te but he has I mean he’s been he’s going through runs where he gets them he had got playoffs think about this but but just cuz you’re not getting the technicals your focus when I when his focus is such Paul that he’s worried about what the referees are doing instead of worrying about his defending or knock it down shots yeah you sitting there you trying to get a foul you don’t get the foul instead of getting your I almost said something instead of getting your butt back on defense you you you running down the court with the slow refs I mean he wasn’t getting back on Divas no way but you but effort though at least if you at least if you do that my team ain’t down three five four five is five on five we running down the court that is true that’s all I’m saying so Kean to me there’s a difference between high IQ and Genius Like creative genius Luca’s got creative offensive genius on shot creating because I’ve never seen anybody create shots the way he does but that’s really different because as you know a genius can be completely scatterbrain and wacky and he gets that way but high IQ means you’re always in charge you’re in command you you know you get you get the perspective you got the big picture in mind that’s just pure smart absolutely all right that’s not Luca I don’t feel that from Luca that’s why when that’s why I asked Paul the initial question is what is a high IQ in basketball because for for me it’s the guys like the Paul’s the lbj’s you know those guys are the ones that I look at go they got they smart yeah they don’t do things that cost the team yeah because with Luca as the initiator of the offense the orchestrator I don’t consider him Smart in the big picture because somebody will come off the bench with a hot hand like Dante exom had a great dunk on Jason Tatum last night played like two minutes that’s the only shot he took well I’d like to see Dante exom get a couple more touches and Magic Johnson’s going to say you know what I’m going to make sure I’m going to make sure I’m going to make sure but LC is like no I got this you know I got this right well look man he got a CH I think personally and we can get to this later he has to change the way he plays on the offensive end thanks for watching Undisputed fans do you want more highlights from the show make sure to click that subscribe button for all the exclusive content from Undisputed

The Dallas Mavericks came up short in Game 3, losing 106-99 to the Boston Celtics. Luka Dončić scored 27 points off 11-of-27 shooting but fouled out in the fourth while his team was amid a 21-point comeback. He later questioned the officiating, saying quote: “Come on man. Be better than that.” Skip Bayless, Paul Pierce and Keyshawn Johnson react to Luka’s comments and fouling out.

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